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From: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: NetBIOS and OS/2
Keywords: NetBIOS interface, PS/2 machines, OS/2
Message-ID: <55100@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 90 18:27:46 GMT
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Reply-To: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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Microsoft Lan Manager, also sold as part of IBM Lan Server, 3Com 3+Open,
Ungermann-Bass Net One and under various other guises all have
full NETBIOS interfaces which are 100% compatible with any other
valid implementation of NETBIOS.

Of course, you must ensure that your network software is using the
same network stacks at both the DOS & OS/2 ends of the network,
ie NETBIOS on. TCP/IP, or NETBEUI, or NETBIOS on XNS, or DECNET etc.

DOS & OS/2 software, with compatible network stacks are all part of
the Lan Manager product.

FYI: LanManager not only has DOS & OS/2 connectivity, but also
Macintosh, through 3Coms add-on products, and also to Unix, through
"Lan Manager for Unix" as sold by Hewlett-Packard, AT&T and others,
and various other operating systems including VAX/VMS.

Alistair Banks
OS/2 Group
Microsoft